Rachel Laudan

I’m probably the last person in the world to see Hokusai’s wave in waving rice (duh), since these kinds of stories fly round the web in a moment.  But if you are another laggard, click on this link which is one of the more informative one, or just google “Inakadate” or “rice field art in [...]

Mending woks with molten iron and a bit of paper or felt.  Pretty amazing stuff.  Don Wagner, who is the person on Chinese metallurgy, sent me a link to a page he has put together on historical and contemporary accounts and photos of the Chinese tinkers who mended woks.  Here’s the link. On the culinary [...]

A couple of preliminaries.  Now that I am on networked blogs on Facebook, I’m getting comments in both places.   I planning on doing the substantive replies here. So to Diana Buja, who worried about what was African about the daily meals, the answer is that so far as I can see not much here. Second, [...]